Middle English Dictionary Entry

sirup n.
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Entry Info

Forms sirup n. Also sirup(p)e, sirruppe, sirop(pe, sir(r)ope, sirip(pe, siripe, sirepe, cirip, serop, serep, serip, cerip, sorip, sorepe, sorrope, surrip(e; pl. siropes, etc. & sorippes, serropes, suripes.
Etymology OF sirop, cyrop, cirup & ML syrupus, siruppus, AL siropus, surripus, ciripis; ult. Ar.

Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)

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(a) Med. A thick viscous liquid, usu. made from herbs boiled with sugar; also fig.; (b) ~ acetous, a decoction of honey or sugar with vinegar; ~ egre, bitter (egre, sour) ~, any bitter-tasting decoction of this kind; ?also, = ~ acetous; ~ of antioche (save); ~ of calaminte (fumetere, roses, violet, wormwode), centorie the ~, a syrup made with sugar or honey and calamint, fumitory, etc.; (c) cook. a thin sauce, usu. made from various ingredients boiled in wine.
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  • a1484 Diseases Women (2) (Trin-C R.14.52)492/244 : Make a syrub iclarified lb. 1 s. and yeve to the womman two ounces therof.
    • Note: Ed.: "sirup 'a thick liquid, usually sweet, often used as a base for medicines'."
    Note: New form: Also..sirub.
    Note: Quot. belongs to sense (a).
  • ?a1475 *Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674) : Ye may mak your cerip of creme of almondes..as ye did of flesche and when they be bak, gilt the stalkes of the peres and serue them.
    • Note: Additional quot. for sense (c).
    Note: Folio reference needed. (Quot. found on page 54 in R. Napier, A Noble Boke off Cookry.)

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Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. syrup.

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Note: Med., etc. (sense (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. sour syrup.

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Note: Med., etc. (sense (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. syrup acetose.

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Note: Med., etc. (sense (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. syrup of calamint.

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Note: Med., etc. (sense (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. syrup of fumitory.

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Note: Med., etc. (sense (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. syrup of rose(s).

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Note: Med., etc. (sense (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. syrup of violet(s).

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Note: Med., etc. (sense (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. syrup of wormwood.

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